how to be paranoid: seeing RTK systems

The boat behind us in the channel was gaining speed. A RTK (real time kinematic)Short Baseline GPS system was spotted: what kind of survey boat was this?!? and a fishing rod amid the tide gauges elevation rods?

As the boat overtook us, it was registered that it was not the receiver of the very high-tech, expensive GPS system, but a scrub brush.

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The only logical explanation is that this was a secret CIA boat looking for the former KGB sub that everyone knows sank in New York harbor while trying to smuggle out the recipe for Steve’s Key Lime Pie. It’s common knowledge that the CIA camouflages their antennas to look like scrub brushes.

*gasp* –how, HOW did you know about Steve’s Key Lime Pie?
it is truly subLime (booooooooo).
Readers: it is my civic duty to make you all aware of truly, the best Key Lime Pie this Key Lime Pie maker (using Porter’s key limes off his tree) has ever tasted.

I keep up with all things New Yawk by reading one of our nation’s most respected institutions of journalistic excellence – Frogma. I can’t seem to link to the specific citation, but if you search for “Steve’s” over there, you’ll find it.